Corey Landon Wozniak
Portrait of Eve
“Portrait of Eve”
(Genesis 2-3)
Bedecked with
bangles of blueberries
on thin wrists and ankles,
Embalmed in a perfume of pine
and black soil,
a robin nests in her tresses.
Eyes like river rocks
of the Euphrates
lock, euphoric,
on the fig.
As the pulpy, purple
flesh of fig
slides from throat
to stomach,
she remembers
the dark promise.
A cuticle yellows.
About the Author
Corey Landon Wozniak lives with his wife and two sons in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he teaches English and Comparative Religions at a public high school. An avid writer, his essays have appeared in The Revealer and Public Square Magazine.
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